Pescara Centrale railway station, also known as Pescara railway station is the main railway station of Pescara. The station lies on the Adriatic line from Rimini to Lecce and the trans-Apennine line to Rome. It serves an average of 3.5 million people per year and is a 5-minute walk to the city's main street and to the beach. The commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni SpA, whereas the Italian Railway Network is responsible for the railway infrastructure.
Architecture
The former headquarters of Pescara Central Station was a nineteenth-century palace at the same site. The initial draft of a new passenger building was drawn up in 1962 by Corrado Cameli Service Work for the FS. This draft proposed a steel-frame structure of the new station building, but changed to pre-stressed concrete in 1970, when structural calculations were carried out by the Studio Engineer Giovanni Cerasoli and Piero di Pescara, with the advice from the engineer Carlo Guidi Baskets. The modern-day building is one of the earliest constructions to be made of pre-stressed concrete among Italian railway stations. The new station building was completed in 1987, when all eight railway tracks in and out of the station being raised to viaduct levels to avoid ground level-crossings.
Train services
The station is served by the following services :
High speed services Milan - Bologna - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari
High speed services Milan - Parma - Bologna - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce
High speed services Milan - Parma - Bologna - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Taranto
High speed services Turin - Parma - Bologna - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce
High speed services Venice - Padua - Bologna - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce
Local services San Benedetto del Tronto - Pescara - Ortona San Vito Lanciano - Lanciano
Interchanges
The bus station is located at the front of Pescara Centrale railway station. Bus services include connections within Pescara to Chieti, Lanciano and Abruzzo Airport. Long-distance coaches to Rome-Tiburtina and Bologna have their terminus at this bus station in Pescara.
Services
The station building hosts a ticket office, automatic ticket machines, two newspaper stands, a cafe bar and a pharmacy. During the night hours, entry into the station building is only permitted for passengers with valid InterCity Notte tickets.
